Top things that I missed in 2015

Another year of blogging comes to an end. It has been quite full of *BSD stuff so that I'd even say: Regarding this blog it has been a BSD year. This was not actually planned but isn't a real surprise, either. I've not given up on Linux (which I use on a daily basis as …

An interview with the Nanolinux developer

2014 is nearly over and for the last post this year I have something special for you again. Last year I posted an interview with the EDE developer and I thought that another interview would conclude this year of blogging quite fine. In the previous post I reviewed Nanolinux (and two years ago XFDOS). Since …

Tiny to the extreme: Nanolinux

It has been more than two years since I wrote about XFDOS, a graphical FreeDOS distribution with the FLTK toolkit and some applications for it (the project's home is here.) Mr. Potthast didn't stop after this achievement however. Soon afterwards he published Nanolinux. And now I finally found the time to re-visit the world of …

GTK-based applications #1: Terminal emulators summary (3/3)

Here's the summary of the GTK terminal emulator test. It provides four tables for easier comparison of the results. Overall Ranking I'll begin with the overall rating here since that's the most important thing. I've compared all DEs in terms of 1. memory consumption (most important for me and thus weighted *3), 2. disk space …

An interview with the EDE developer

It's summer solstice today and thus the longest day of the year. I promised something special and here it is: Sanel Zukan, the man behind the Equinox Desktop Environment (EDE) agreed to give me an interview (or to answer a few questions if you will). If you're not familiar with EDE, I tried to summarize …

Qt-based applications #3: Text Editors (2/2)

The last blog entry was about a test of 9 Qt-based text editors (those which I could get to run on Arch Linux). And since the comparison of so many programs and values is not really an easy thing, here's a second post providing some tables which show the programs sorted not by name but …

Qt-based applications #3: Text Editors (1/2)

In this post we'll take a look at some Qt-based text editors. Just like with the file managers I'll split my post in two parts because there's quite a number (I found 15!) of such editors out there. While compiling my list of Qt-based editors, I came across something I hadn't heard of before. A …

Qt-based applications #2: File managers (2/2)

In the last blog entry I tested 8 Qt-based file managers (those which I got to run on Arch Linux). Since that's quite a bit of stuff, I'd like to present a nice table in this post for easier comparison. Overall ranking Here's the table with the overall results. The file managers were compared in …

Qt-based applications #2: File managers (1/2)

In this post we'll take a look at some Qt-based file managers. Since there's quite a lot of them, let's start right away! All screenshots from this entry on are in 1024x768 resolution. So if you click on any of the pictures you'll get a bigger one where you might actually see something... The candidates …

Linux GUI toolkits

We're going to examine 7 toolkits in just a minute after discussing how to deal with this topic. These 7 are: Qt4GKT+3GTK+2GNUstepFOXOpenMotifFLTKAnd then there's of corse a comparison. Some people say that Linux is all about is choice. True or not: When it comes to toolkits, it's usually the programmers who have to make a …